Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foothills
Noun
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West Highland Way, Scotland — Easy village-to-village walking through the western highlands.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
4 June 2026 -
Beauchamp tripping back in time, lost and separated in the highlands of 18th century Scotland.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
1 June 2026
Noun
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Moose were plentiful, feeding and resting on grassy knolls.—
Ben East,
Outdoor Life,
14 May 2026
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All the intricate meetings and rolling knolls, all the reliable critiques of the kids today, have left this former student in the ranking spirit.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Several of the incidents took place in the mountains, with some people injured while out foraging for wild plants and vegetables.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
9 June 2026
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There is snow on the mountains, dense fog that blankets crops in the fall, giving life to wine-country grapes, fires in the dry season and the occasional earthquake.—
Zinzi Clemmons,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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This drought tolerant vine grows naturally on dry, sandy soils in pine forest openings and coastal uplands.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
16 May 2026
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Today, the uplands are so broadly sunlit that most analysts say future interest rate cuts from the Fed are now likely pushed off into the far distance.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
Noun
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After that, the space agency will perform more flights at different altitudes and speeds, as well as measure the aircraft’s acoustic signature.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
12 June 2026
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The team now plans stratospheric flights later this year, targeting altitudes above 40,000 feet—higher than typical passenger airliner cruise levels.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
10 June 2026
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Wind gusts could exceed 40 mph in some of the higher elevations, and some ridge tops could see gusts around 60 mph.—
Jose Fabian,
CBS News,
10 June 2026
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Though Boise wasn’t expected to see freezing temperatures, higher elevations in Idaho are about to get icy, the weather service said.—
Hali Smith,
Idaho Statesman,
10 June 2026
Noun
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The model is assigned some structure—like a neural network—giving us a number of knobs that can be independently tweaked to fine-tune the algorithm’s behavior.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
8 June 2026
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Tighten the knobs or nuts securely.—
Louise Parks,
Martha Stewart,
6 June 2026
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These speakers join previously announced eminences from Amazon, Calm, Contextual AI, CoreWeave, Databricks, DataSnipper, Exelon, Glean, Google, Intuit, Rivian, and Serve Robotics.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
17 Nov. 2025
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It was started by Goodall, Desmond Tutu, and other eminences.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Foothills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foothills. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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